Diane Roberts Stoler Ed.D. - Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Guide to Living with the Challenges Associated with Post Concussion Syndrome a nd Brain Trauma

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The excerpt is from From Inside Out by Beverley Bryant, which appeared in Through This Window: Views on Traumatic Brain Injury, edited by Patricia Felton, published by EBTS, Inc., 1992. Reprinted by permission.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stoler, Diane Roberts.

[Coping with mild traumatic brain injury]

Coping with concussion and mild traumatic brain injury : a guide to living with the challenges associated with post concussion syndrome and brain trauma / Diane Roberts Stoler, Ed.D., and Barbara Albers Hill.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-101-63161-4

1. Brain damage. 2. BrainWounds and injuriesComplications. 3. Brain damagePatientsRehabilitation. 4. Brain damagePsychological aspects. I. Hill, Barbara Albers. II. Title.

RC387.5.S75 2013 2013016860

617.4'81044dc23

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CONTENTS

To all people who have experienced a brain injury:

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

If there is a will, there is a way.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

B oth Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and this, our second book, are the result of countless hours of research, along with input from professionals who freely gave their time and commitment to the books success. Each chapter was reviewed several times by experts in the specific field for accuracy of information. With deep gratitude, I want to thank the following experts for their contributions in specific subject areas: